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# longitude

«longitude» in Mova's school dictionary: **The distance east or west of an imaginary line through…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (longitude, longitudes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (geography) The distance east or west of an imaginary line through Greenwich, London, measured in degrees from 0° to 180°. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longitude/#m1)

2) Lines of longitude: imaginary lines on a map or globe going from the North Pole to the South Pole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longitude/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and maps: longitude and latitude give a place's exact position (coordinates). Longitude is linked to time zones — every 15° is about one hour of time. Phrases: «lines of longitude», «latitude and longitude», «degrees of longitude».

### examples

- Lines of longitude run from pole to pole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longitude/#x1)
- Greenwich is at 0° longitude. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longitude/#x2)
- Find the latitude and longitude of your town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longitude/#x3)
- London and Accra are at almost the same longitude. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longitude/#x4)
- Sailors used clocks to work out longitude at sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longitude/#x5)
- Each 15° of longitude is about one hour's time difference. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longitude/#x6)

### note

Uncountable (sometimes «longitudes»). Trap: latitude = lines going ACROSS (east-west), measuring north-south; longitude = LONG lines from pole to pole, measuring east-west. Pronounced «LON-ji-tude» (UK also «LONG-gi-tude»). Lines of longitude are also called meridians. In maths: 360° ÷ 24 hours = 15° per hour.

### In the corpora

- [Latitude tells how far north or south a place is; longitude tells how far east or west.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/23/)
- [John Harrison built clocks in the 1700s accurate enough to find longitude at sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/26/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «longitude» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longitude/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.